U+83A6 "莦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莦
U+83A6 "莦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historical Chinese character used primarily in classical texts and archaic names. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant atop the phonetic component "肖," and its traditional meanings include the name of a type of grass or herb, as well as a surname found in ancient records. The character appears in the Kangxi Dictionary and is occasionally referenced in sinological and linguistic studies of Old Chinese, though it is not in common modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 莦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83a6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D776 |
| kCCCII | 227E23 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-387A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-387A |
| kCangjie | TFB |
| kCantonese | saau1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1494.080 |
| kDefinition | jungle grass; lair |
| kEACC | 227E23 |
| kFanqie | 相邀 所交 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB3 | 7307 |
| kGB8 | 9433 |
| kHanYu | 53217.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53217.100:shāo,xiāo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1494.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53217.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1035.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6927 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D776 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5830 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6DEA |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5779 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-387A |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ |
| kJapaneseKun | MIDARERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU SHOU |
| kJis1 | 5616 |
| kKangXi | 1035.080 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 9174 |
| kMandarin | shāo |
| kMeyerWempe | 2609c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022024 MJ022024:E0101 MJ022025:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31073:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 220* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22329+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 146.58 153.06 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9126 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 324:350 |